Vim Tips

Hervé Beraud personal vim tips and memo

Format file

• remove white spaces at line start :%s/^\s\+//e
• remove white spaces at end of line :%s/\s\+$//e

Copy & paste

• copy and assign to buffer "kyy (in this example is assigned to key k)
• paste buffer content (assigned to k) "kp

Mark

• set mark a at current cursor location ma (assign mark to key a)
• jump to line of mark a (first non-blank character in line) 'a
• jump to position (line and column) of mark `a
• delete from current line to line of mark d'a
• change text from current line to line of mark c'a
• yank text to unnamed buffer from cursor to position of mark y`a
• list all the current marks :marks